Mr. Chair, with respect to the presumption of guilt, this is already the case for procuring, and it generally works quite well. Police officers and agents normally lay charges only if the individual living with the prostitute encourages her to engage in prostitution for the purpose of exploiting her. However, the act is enforced with a degree of flexibility if the individual is a co-tenant, husband or the child of the person living on the avails of prostitution.
I am in favour of the presumption of innocence being applied in exploitation cases. I think that we have proven to date that we are capable of applying it judiciously. As for consecutive sentences, I am not a lawyer; this is not my specialty. However, I believe that the idea is to prevent certain things. We see that drug traffickers receive different sentences from those of human traffickers, who are punished only once for their crime, even though several girls work for them. I believe the idea here is to avoid this kind of pitfall.